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    Studio XPS 1340 vs. Studio XPS 1640

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by madiyaan, Dec 20, 2009.

  1. madiyaan

    madiyaan Newbie

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    I am thinking of buying an XPS laptop.

    I currently have a XPS 1530. I use this laptop to do work (word processing, powerpoint presentations, development of some programs), surfing (I typically have 20-30 tabs open in Firefox or Chrome, with a lot of flash heavy pages like YouTube), light gaming (sometimes DOTA). I move the laptop around the house 2-3 times a day (from living room to study, etc.) but don't carry it in the backpack like a student.

    XPS 1530 has 15.4 inch screen with C2D 9300 with 6 MB L2 cache. XPS 16 has 16 inch screen while XPS 13 has 13.3 inch screen.

    Which laptop would you recommend given my situation? How easy is it to adapt to 13.3 or 16 inch screen given that I am used to 15.4 inch screen? How about the temperature differences between XPS 13 vs. XPS 16.

    Any advice would be appreciated.
     
    madiyaan, Dec 20, 2009
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  2. MrSpock2002

    MrSpock2002 Notebook Evangelist

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    The XPS 1640 is a beast of a machine and I LOVE mine (look at the sig). I've heard some nasty things about the 1340 being under powered, and I do know the 1645 (with i7) has some throttling issues.

    My 1640 is my baby, very powerful, does get warm, but never hot to the touch and I've yet to ever experience any throttling.
     
    MrSpock2002, Dec 20, 2009
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